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    VOICING THE SILENCES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE SELECTED SHORT STORIES OF BHARATI MUKHERJEE AND BUSHRA EJAZ
    (Central University of Punjab, 2018) KAUR, SHYAMKIRAN; Sen, Rajinder Kumar
    Women have been viewed and perceived within the constructed patriarchal structure of gender difference. The present research work tries to probe into the silences, subordination and voices of the Third World women in the Eastern and the Western world by undertaking a comparative study of the selected short stories of Bharati Mukherjee and Bushra Ejaz by using feminism as a theoretical framework. The selected short fiction taken for this research work includes Mukherjee’s Darkness (1985) and The Middleman and Other Stories (1988) and translated short stories of Bushra Ejaz, Selected Short Stories of Bushra Ejaz (2010), which are from her collections Barah Anne ki Aurat (1994), Aaj ki Sheharzad (2005). Mukherjee and Ejaz are representatives of contemporary women of India and Pakistan respectively. The selected writers are from diverse socio-cultural locations but what joins them is their dissent against the social and cultural construction of gender. Both of the authors can also be regarded as feminists because they express their rebellion by constructing a variety of adversarial stratagems against the patriarchal culture in their creations. The comparative study leads us to a comprehensive exploration of these writers understanding of the subordinated position of women, their struggle to assert their voice and their audacious efforts to propose new patterns of feminine existence. The selected writers, through their literary creations, try to create a space for the Indian immigrant and Pakistani women that throws a definite challenge to the masculine tyranny. The study also raises questions by dealing with serious and clandestine matters of women. Thereby, their literary creations can be commended as the voice of the women world. The research work depicts the positive role of Indian-American, and Pakistani writers in the on-going conflict of establishing female selfhood. By comparing the selected writers and their selected works, the study contributes to the spectrum of Comparative Literature.
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    Screening the White Women's Dilemma in Colonial India New Historicist Study of A Passage to India (1985), and Heat and Dust (1982)
    (Galaxy, 2017) Singh, Jagdish; Saini, Alpna
    The events of the past can be accessed through different kinds of mediums such as written historic texts, the government records, the other sources like socio-cultural traditions, the oral sagas etc. But a new trend has become prominent from past few years that is representing history through films. So the events form history of any nation can be screened through the medium of films. In case of India, the films based on colonial era, represent the various kinds of colonial-colonised relations, socio-cultural interactions on both sides. The present study centers on the role of race and gender in relation to colonial politics. The present paper studies the phenomenon of screening the dilemma of white women during the colonial era in the history of India. The study examines the selected films from New Historicist perspective.
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    Girish Karnad's The Fire and the Rain and Mahesh Dattani's Dance like a Man: A study of Marginal Identities and Performing Artists
    (Central University of Punjab, 2018) Mahanta, Susmita; Saini, Alpna
    The two plays under study are Dance Like a Man (1989) by Mahesh Dattani and The Fire and the Rain (1995) by Girish Karnad. The present study proposes to focus on the depiction of marginal identities of performing artists by the societal marginalisation like gender, caste, and class. In the play Dance Like a Man, the life of the dancers is pathetically portrayed as they are never privileged for keeping the classical dancing fresh and alive rather the dancers are marginalised. Politics and Patriarchy serve as an obstacle in the path of dancers like Jairaj, Ratna and Lata. Dancing is chosen as a profession and occupation by the dancers but frequent depreciation by the family members and the society has made them handicapped economically as well as socially. The society, the dancers dwell in, never misses an opportunity to exploit, criticise and blame them. Thus, a chapter of this study is about the marginalisation of the artist on the basis of societal marginalisation. The first marginalisation looked upon in the play for performing artists is gender divide, like how females and males behaving like female are treated. The second marginalisation is class divide and the third is caste. The play, The Fire, and the Rain is about the marginalised actors who are hindered by caste, class, and gender. Acting chosen as a profession by Brahmin was not accepted in the medieval period in India. The actors were termed as low-caste. In this play, religion, politics, and patriarchy are the factors responsible for the marginalisation of the theatre actors. Karnad's, through this play, wants to save theatre by saving the theatre artist by using the tool of myth. This study focuses on unmasking the truth that the profession of an individual is not to be chosen by birth rather it is individual's choice that matters in choosing his/her profession. This study aims to bring out the reasons and consequences for the marginalisation of performing artists depicted in both the plays.